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Democrat Mary Peltola defeated Sarah Palin in the Alaska Special election to replace Rep. Don Young in Congress.Ranked-choice voting and mail-in ballots were implemented by referendum in 2020.This confusing system is only being pushed by RINOS and radicals in conservative red states .Republicans got 60% of the vote AND LOST.
Link: https://anti-empire.com/saudi-arabia-more-than-doubles-russian-oil-imports/
Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil exporter, more than doubled the amount of Russian fuel oil it imported in the second quarter to feed power stations to meet summer cooling demand and free up the kingdom’s own crude for export, data showed and traders said. Saudi Arabia has for several years imported Russian fuel oil, which can reduce its need to refine crude for products and cut the amount of oil it needs to burn for power, leaving it with more unrefined crude to sell on international markets at higher prices.
Link: https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-08-30-us-oil-reserves-37-year-low-biden.html
United States’ strategic oil reserves fell to a 37-year low as Biden continues to release millions of barrels of oil and put them up for sale, with most going overseas. 125 million barrels already sold off. The White House announced the country would release another 20 million barrels in August, with around 18 millionalready been released .Tens of millions of barrels from the Strategic Reserves are going to Asia in record amounts. Buyers from China, India and South Korea have picked up more than 20 million barrels,
Link: https://www.rt.com/news/561976-california-sexual-education-curriculum/
A southern California school district curriculum is teaching children there are over ten sexual orientations and nine genders, according to a Fox News report . Some parents expressed outrage, stating that such teachings are “sexualizing our kids and normalizing sexual behavior” at a young age .It also identifies over 10 different sexual and ‘romantic’ orientations, which include androsexual, skoliosexual, demisexual, gynesexual, polysexual, and asexual, as well as heteroromantic, gyneromantic, homoromantic, androromantic, and skolioromantic.
California legislature has approved a bill that seeks to target and punish family doctors who “spread disinformation” by veering from the official narrative while advising their patients on vaccines and treatments for COVID-19.; state will establish a “Disinformation Authority” that would investigate doctors for contradicting the official proclamation on Covid treatments.
Link: https://www.activistpost.com/2022/09/rent-in-u-s-hits-record-high-for-17th-month-in-a-row.html
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Rents rose by double-digit percentages in all size categories in July compared to a year ago, with monthly rents for studios up 14.3% to $1,555; one-bedrooms, up 12.2% to $1,745; and two-bedrooms, up 11.7% to $2,103. The South and Northeast have seen the largest rent increases. Miami, where rents were up 26.2% from a year ago, saw the biggest increase among the 50 largest US cities for the 10th-straight month. Miami was followed by New York, Boston, Chicago, and Orlando.
Link: http://www.yourdestinationnow.com/2022/09/left-in-dark-european-businesses-forced.html
Small businesses are being forced to shut down for good, as energy costs multiply to unsustainable levels The energy crisis in Europe has driven electricity prices up 250 percent over the past twelve months. It’s about to get much worse, as the winter season draws near. In the United Kingdom, Britons are bracing for energy bill increases of 80 percent.
Link: https://nypost.com/2022/09/01/californians-asked-not-to-charge-electric-cars-amid-heat-wave/
California residents asked not to charge their electric vehicles to conserve energy amid a brutal heatwave days after the state announced a plan to ban sales of new gas-powered cars by 2035.
Gibson’s, a restaurant and bakery near Oberlin College, can now collect $36 million from Oberlin for defamation over racism claims, according to a court ruling. The Ohio Supreme Court made the ruling — the decision was 4-3.
Link: https://www.rt.com/news/561991-poland-germany-wwii-reparations/
Polish leaders have provided a new assessment of the damage the country sustained at the hands of Germany during World War II, evaluating it at 6.2 trillion zlotys ($1.32 trillion). Warsaw believes Germany is capable of paying the bill, and insisted the move would serve “true Polish-German reconciliation,” which would be based on “truth.”; the current estimate of damages may not be final.
“The sum that was presented was adopted using the most limited, conservative method, it would be possible to increase it,” Polish lawmakers previously estimated the damages sustained during WWII at $850 billion in 2019,
thousands of Xcel customers in Colorado tried adjusting their thermostats Tuesday, learned they had no control over the temperatures in their own homes .the temperature was locked due to an “energy emergency.”22,000 people lost control of temperatures in their homes for hours
Link: https://www.rt.com/news/561598-tiktok-car-theft-challenge/
A car-theft challenge on TikTok that has gone viral in recent weeks has caused a massive increase in vehicle thefts in the Chicago area. The videos, spreading under the hashtag ‘Kia Boyz’ teach TikTok users to steal older Hyundai and Kia car types using nothing but the tip of a phone charger or USB cable. Chicago area alone has suffered an increase of 767% in Kia and Hyundai thefts thanks to the challenge, police say Police urged Kia and Hyundai owners to stay “alert,” always remove their ignition keys when the vehicle is not being used and park it in a “well-traveled and well-lit area.”
After Mark Zuckerberg leaked news that the FBI had instructed Facebook to censor posts about Hunter's laptop, the FBI immediately called Zuckerberg to tell him to censor any posts about that censorship."We cannot have news about us censoring people get out there uncensored," said FBI director Christopher Wray.
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer announced a new drug to fix the side effect from their last new drug, which was developed to fix the side effect from the one before that. Pfizer had initially released the medication "Pytriq" to treat mild cases of seasonal allergies. "Our studies showed excellent results, with less runny nose and cough. However, about half of the people on Pytriq experienced the sudden, violent explosion of their spleen," explained medical director Allan Watson. "Luckily, we developed a drug called 'Splenapril' which stopped the spleens from exploding. However, within days of starting Splenapril, people developed absolutely gargantuan hemorrhoids.
Link: https://www.rt.com/news/561657-nigeria-bans-white-models/
Nigerian ads will have to rely solely on local models and voiceover artists in future, the African nation’s government announced this week. The policy changes will come into force on October 1. “All advertisements, advertising and marketing communications materials are to make use of only Nigerian models and voiceover artists,” the Advertising Regulatory Council of Nigeria (ARCON) said in a statement on Tuesday. Current advertising campaigns using foreign talents will be allowed to continue but no new permits for similar campaigns will be issued by the relevant authorities
Link: https://www.rt.com/business/561638-france-germany-electricity-prices-spike/
Price for electricity in two key EU markets saw enormous increases on Friday, forcing the bloc’s leaders to call an emergency meeting to discuss the power-supply crisis The surge is fueling inflation across the continent, putting finances of households and businesses under growing threat. risk of a recession and projected winter energy shortages in the region.
Price of natural gas in Europe is approximately six times higher than last year…already starting to see very large protests in a number of different countries; workers in France, Spain and Belgium go out on strike in the public transport, health and aviation sectors, pushing for higher wages to help them cope with rocketing inflation. officials in Europe concerned about potential shortages and blackouts;.energy crisis forcing some big companies to significantly curtail activity
Amid continued blackouts and great political unrest, the Pakistani government has threatened protesters with having their digital IDs blocked so they can’t access their bank accounts.
A federal appeals court on Friday struck down a Biden administration statute that forced doctors to perform medical procedures, including gender-transition procedures, against their religious beliefs.
Link: https://www.activistpost.com/2022/08/ev-charging-stations-shut-down-to-conserve-power-in-china.html
Electric vehicles (EVs) have been associated with high costs and other significant issues. Problems with EV charging stations have been reported too China, government recently closed numerous EV charging stations to conserve power during a historic heat wave.
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